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Ulstein Verft has installed a helideck on board Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Centaurus at its yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, thus completing the topside equipment installation process. According to Ulstein, Acta Centaurus will be completed and ready for operation in a little more than two months. “The main topside equipment, including tower, gangway and crane, has been […]
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Ulstein Verft has installed a helideck on board Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Centaurus at its yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, thus completing the topside equipment installation process. According to Ulstein, Acta Centaurus will be completed and ready for operation in a little more than two months. “The main topside equipment, including tower, gangway and crane, has been […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Storage
Offshore service provider NDE Offshore has started annual inspections of the helideck substructures on three HVDC platforms in the German North Sea for Siemens Transmission.
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SeaState Aviation has conducted an inspection of the helideck on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger, making sure it fulfills UK offshore helideck requirements before starting operations on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm for Statoil later this year. The scope of work comprised an inspection of the helideck along with an audit of the operational […]
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SeaState Aviation has conducted an inspection of the helideck on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger, making sure it fulfills UK offshore helideck requirements before starting operations on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm for Statoil later this year. The scope of work comprised an inspection of the helideck along with an audit of the operational […]
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Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Storage
NDE Offshore AB has recently been awarded a contract by Siemens to conduct periodic inspections of the helidecks on three offshore HVDC platforms in the North Sea. The grid connections are owned by German-Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT. Already completed is the Helwin1 platform, where inspections were carried out in April. At the end of […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
DNV GL is launching a joint industry project (JIP) to improve risk assessment of offshore helideck turbulence through the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The project’s aim is to bridge the gap between advised and actual hazardous flight conditions, ensuring cost-effective designs and helicopter operations without compromising safety. CFD is widely used in high-level analyses of […]
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Equipment, Exploration & Production
Det norske oljeselskap AS, the operator of the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea, has shared images of a helideck being lifted on top of the Living Quarters (LQ) for the Ivar Aasen platform, being built by Apply Leirvik in its construction site in Stord, Norway. According to Det norske, it took three hours […]
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Having finished this winter’s assignments, “Polarsyssel” has returned to Leirvik for installation of the Helideck. Soon she will be heading for Svalbard again to be in the governor’s service. She was delivered from Havyard Ship Technology’s yard in Leirvik in Sogn to the icelandic shipping company Fafnir Offshore in September 2014. Polarsyssel is a state-of-the-art […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment
Aluminium Offshore Pte Ltd has been awarded a contract to deliver a 26.1m XE Enhanced Safety Helideck to Teekay for their FSO at the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The FSO will be based on a converted Shuttle Tanker in the Teekay Fleet. According to the company, the contract […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance
The newest edition to Dolphin’s fleet, high-capacity purpose-built vessel M/V Polar Empress, owned by GC Rieber Shipping, had its helideck installed this week. The seismic company Dolphin Geophysical has contracted the vessel for a fixed period of five years, and the high end vessel will enter this contract directly upon delivery from the yard in […]
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Tranberg AS has announced the worldwide product launch of the new CHLITE Touchdown/Positioning Marking fully applying to CAP437, 7th Ed. with Amendment. The CHLITE Helideck Lighting Solution is a cooperation between Calzoni S.r.l. – founded 1834 in Bologna-Italy (today an L-3 Company) and Tranberg – founded 1901 in Stavanger-Norway (today member of the R.Stahl Group). […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment
Amarcon, a part of the ABB group and Observator Instruments, a developer of sensors and services for meteorological and hydrological monitoring, have announced that the companies will jointly develop a helideck monitoring and forecasting system. Amarcon stated that the helideck monitoring and forecasting system will improve the flight and passenger safety during helicopter landings and […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders
When Aberdeen-based Diamond Offshore wanted to add new functionality to the existing helideck monitoring system on the Ocean Guardian drilling rig in the North Sea, Fugro developed and delivered a fully integrated, user-friendly solution to fulfil the requirements. Severe weather conditions in the North Sea can cause major disruption to offshore operations so Diamond Offshore […]
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Equipment, Exploration & Production
Orga Offshore has installed its innovative CAP 437-compliant Circle – H LED touchdown, positioning and heliport dentification marking system on Ensco’s jackup drilling rigs ENSCO 70 and ENSCO 80. The latter marks the fifth installation for Orga in as many weeks and with orders to deliver and install 550 certified Circle-H helideck lighting systems over the next three years, […]
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Bayards Aluminium Constructies, a specialist in light weight and maintenance free structures for the offshore industry, has paired up with Barge Master, a pioneer in motion compensated equipment for the offshore industry, to design the first aluminium Motion Compensated Helideck. The new Motion Compensated Helideck (MCH) is driven by three actuators compensating two translations (sway […]
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Norway’s Apply Leirvik has connected the top part of the Edvard Grieg living quarter with the lower part. The living quarter of Lundin’s new Edvard Grieg Platform (formerly Luno), is now standing in full size,excluding the helideck, on the Apply Leirvik quay with its approximate weight of 1200 tonnes and about 25 meters in height. The assembly […]
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Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance
Maersk Training is about to launch two new offshore emergency courses, the OPITO Helideck Emergency Response Team Member Training and the OPITO 6 Day Combined Helideck and Team Member Training. These two OPITO Accredited courses will kick start this month at the company’s training centre in the North-East of Scotland and be delivered using a […]
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A project milestone was achieved yesterday of the final heavy lift on the Golden Eagle Living Quarters module, currently under construction on Sembmarine SLP’s Lowestoft Yard. The single lift of the 70 tonne Cantilevered Helideck was positioned adjacent to the top deck of the six storey offshore structure. The LQ module which is due for […]
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A project milestone was achieved yesterday on the final heavy lift of the Golden Eagle Living Quarters module, currently under construction at Sembmarine SLP’s Lowestoft Yard. The single lift of the 70 tonne Cantilevered Helideck was positioned adjacent to the top deck of the six storey offshore structure. The LQ module which is due for […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment
GEDA USA, the leading manufacturer of rack and pinion industrial elevator and hoist solutions, expanded its line of elevators, hoists and lifts for offshore drilling operations to include the Helideck Transport Platform. GEDA USA says that the Helideck Transport Platform’s innovative design has revolutionized access to offshore heliports. Access to heliports was previously limited to […]
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Business & Finance, Business developments & projects, Infrastructure, Market outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & strategy
Global demand for offshore helicopter transport to offshore facilities plunged in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Rystad Energy report shows.
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Operations & Maintenance, Vessels
Dubai-based subsea services player Dulam said that its DSV Oceanic Installer has commenced charter with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). According tu Dulam, the vesselis is currently carrying out subsea IMR operations off the West Coast of India. The vessel comes equipped with a 14-man saturation diving system and air diving system; 100-ton […]
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Authorities & Government, Environment, Equipment, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels
UK’s most advanced polar research ship RRS Sir David Attenborough has left Liverpool for technical sea trials. Operated by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) the new polar ship should transform UK research in the polar regions. Its missions are critical for understanding and making sense of our changing climate. The Cammell Laird shipyard engineers and BAS […]
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Authorities & Government, Business developments & projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Regulation & policy
Turkey stated that there is a possibility that it would cooperate with foreign companies to develop its massive discovery in the Black Sea.
